IF Magazine Hurray, the IF Magazine is online for everybody. And so it began: “This is the first issue of a new science fiction magazine called IF. The title was selected after much thought because of its brevity and on

Because I just finished the book “Mining the Oort” by Frederick Pohl, my favourite science fiction author by the way, and because of Philae’s landing on the Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko I would like to take a look at the feasibility of

I was looking for a science fiction book to review, the one that starts the series and also would actually kick-off the if-ics | sci-fi website (so far only if-ics, no sci-fi!). I stumbled over this little book in the

The No-Purpose AI The trouble with AIs I have recently watched a video where Rob Miles explains how a simple, single, general AI can screw mankind into oblivion by collecting stamps (<computerphile> – Deadly Truth about general AI). At the

Get your personal AI now! At the moment there is a discussion about the dangers of AIs and prominent people (Bill Gates, Elon Musk & Steven Hawkins) all very smart guys, all smarter than me at least, speak out to

Escape into the Age of Abundance The third press briefing or how humanity will end I recently watched the “Third press briefing of the Arctic Methane Emergency Group (AMEG) held on Dec. 6, 2014 at the 20th annual Conference of

Nobody will buy self-driving cars The necessity for self-driving cars Ok, so to just make the reality check. Self-driving cars / vehicles are already here. It is no fiction anymore. The question is not if but when this will happen

Humans Need Not Apply Here the video from the channel of CGP Grey (his channel is very informative and entertaining – so subscribe). Now to the Video: The overall gist of the video is that technology is out there and